These great, glorious, fur-coated apes are some of our closest relatives. Sadly we may also be their biggest threat. People have been pushing into the mountain gorilla’s forests in central Africa for ...

A version of this story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. GOMA, Democratic Republic of the Congo—Trackers swing their machetes at the thick jungle, and ...

The total world population of mountain gorillas has risen to 880, according to census data released today by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. The number of mountain gorillas has increased from the 2010 ...

Mountain gorillas in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have been seen by park rangers for the first time since the rangers were forced out of areas of Virunga National Park by Laurent Nkunda’s ...

Mountain Gorillas VIRUNGA, DRC – SEPTEMBER 30: An endangered mountain Gorilla looks through some bushes on September 30, 2006 in the Virunga National Park outside Goma, DRC.